How Blockchain Technology in the Meat Industry is Improving Animal Welfare

MATTHEW FEARGRIEVE explains how blockchain technologies are improving animal welfare in the global meat industry.

The Dirty Truth about the Meat Industry

Matthew Feargrieve looks at how the global meat industry and its practices are being challenged by animal rights groups and by Big Business.

A Look Back at 2020 and a Look Forward to 2021’s Stock Markets

Matthew Feargrieve reviews the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the financial markets of 2020 and looks forward to likely financial trends in 2021.

स्विट्जरलैंड: बचाव कोष तथा हिन्दी सिनेमा

Bollywood films have always featured fantasy sequences, moments in the middle of the narrative where a song playsover a scene set in a beautiful location. The northern Indian region of Kashmir was a popular backdrop for these Bollywood song sequences, but political unrest in the 1990s forced Indian filmmakers to find an alternative location. Legend …

Coronavirus: How will Hedge Fund Managers in Switzerland respond?

Matthew Feargrieve considers the opportunities and challenges that the virus presents for alternative asset managers in Switzerland With the COVID-19 pandemic representing a Black Swan event for fund managers worldwide, the onslaught of the virus will be a test of the hedge fund industry’s ability to deliver returns that are uncorrelated to the markets. In …

CORONAVIRUS Wipes out European Airline

CORONAVIRUS takes its toll on European businesses, as UK airline Flybe goes to the wall. UK REGIONAL AIRLINE FLYBE is to be liquidated as the relentless spread of the coronavirus in Europe hammers the final nail into the operator’s casket. The liquidators moved in to Flybe’s headquarters today in Exeter, England, to start the wind-down …

Switzerland’s Hedge Fund Industry in 2020

In this, the first of two articles, MATTHEW FEARGRIEVE takes a look at Switzerland in 2020 as a centre of alternative asset management for single managers and managers of funds of hedge funds (FoHFs). Switzerland is the fifth largest global centre of alternative assets under management (AUM), after North America, the United Kingdom, Sweden and …

RIP Alitalia: Doomed to Fail

MATTHEW FEARGRIEVE discusses the inevitable demise of Italy’s flag carrier It will come as small surprise to readers of this blog that Alitalia is to shutter most of its operations, a mere two years after its ambitious rebranding as Air Italy. Like so many aspects of big business and industry in Italy, the joint venture …